Page 39 of Spending Forever With You

While I paid for the food, then received it, Hollis was quiet until I began driving home.

“We truly have lived all around the city, huh?”

“Yup. It’s impossible not to see our memories wherever we go, especially not our late night food spots. Our first date was there,” I said, thinking back to Jimmy letting me use the old school, trying to impress Hollis. I was sixteen and had just gotten my license and pulled up to Lacy’s house to pick her up.

“It was! I remember you pulled out twenty dollars, talking some get whatever you want, Hershey, it’s on me. I looked at you like you were balling.”

“And then you told me it betta be on me.” That had us both laughing as I pulled into the garage.

“You damn right. You asked me out. I wasn’t paying for anything, Lacy taught me that.” I shook my head as I turned the key, killing the engine but keeping the music going.

“Oh my gosh, we were so young,” she said as she dazed out, staring at nothing before letting out a soft breath then going for her food while passing me my tacos and some sauce.

It was quiet, both of us getting into our food until another memory began playing over the speakers. It was as if the universe had her own agenda as the song from our wedding playlist began playing.

Out of habit I hummed it, pausing on her part since it was a duet. I was surprised when she actually sang her part, mouth full of food and all.

“Never will I walk alone again, not with you as my lover and best friend. Just us, only us till the end.”

“Just us, only us,” I said, adding my adlibs out loud as I stared at Hollis long and deep, hoping she was listening to more than the words.

We were ending the second week and I was convinced more now than ever that I’d never gotten over my wife.

We had reached week three of Hollis being at the house, and like clockwork, I walked out of my room to see Hollis at the island like every other morning since she moved in. Today she had breakfast and her laptop in front of her. I could tell she was working since the only thing on her screen was a document as she typed away. And again, like each morning, she was on the phone. This morning, I chose to do a quieter greeting since I figured she was working.

“Morning, Hershey.” She offered me a smile before she pulled the phone away from her face, hitting a button, then speaking.

“Good morning, I went and got food from Morningside. I put yours in the microwave after I got more groceries. I hope I got your order right.” I smiled at the gesture. We had been getting along.

“Thank you. Whatever you got is appreciated.” I hit the button on the microwave for a minute. That was all I could get out before her attention was back on the phone and she got up to head outside. That was when I caught the best view to start the morning.

Yeah, if it was yours.

Hollis had on some tiny shorts and ass for days, way more than back in the day and I was here for it. I mean, yes, I noticed her body had changed with her filling out more in the thighs and titties, and my god, all that ass that was moving like the waves in the ocean with each strut she took on the deck.

My wife is fine as fuck.

As I took my first bite of the food, something clicked. She went outside like that? My feet were moving faster now, sliding the door open to hear her laughter as she spoke.

“No, I’m not doing that. I gave you something. No, correction, two somethings and both are worth gold to hold you over. Be patient while I take this time off for the next couple weeks to think of a natural approach. I’m close now.”

She laughed again as she turned to face me while her face bunched up then she mouthed, “is everything okay?” I nodded as she put her attention back on who I now knew was her boss.

“Look I have to go, and no you may not call me for anything.” She hung up then put her gaze back on me.

“It’s the food, ain’t it? I knew I should’ve done the eggs myself. Reheated eggs just don’t taste right.”

“No, that’s not the issue. The eggs are fine.”

“Then what is it?”

“You went out to the store and shit like that?” Hollis’s face fell as she kissed her teeth, walking past with me right on her ass, literally, and my dick immediately reacted.

“Luke, if you don’t get that shit off my ass I’ma chop it off and feed it to the fish for breakfast.”

I chuckled because I believed she would. We didn’t even have fish, but that didn’t stop me from finding the underlying cause of her being outside half naked.

“So I’ma take that as a yes, that you went out in public with my ass on display for the world to see.”